Category: Records and research Records and researchThe lamps are going out all over EuropeMonday 4 August 2014At 11pm on 4 August 1914 Britain declared war on Germany, bringing to an...Records and researchThe death of Queen AnneFriday 1 August 2014This August marks the 300th anniversary of the death of Queen Anne, the last of...Behind the scenesThe First World War: a global viewFriday 1 August 2014The First World War. What images spring to mind when you read those four...Records and researchTimetable to mobilisationThursday 31 July 2014At the turn of the 20th century there had been no war between any of...Records and research100 years ago today: Austria declares war on SerbiaMonday 28 July 2014On Tuesday 28 July, exactly one month after the assassination of the Archduke Franz...Records and researchSir Edward Grey’s doomed questFriday 25 July 2014On July 24, 1914, Count von Mensdorff, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador, communicated the text of the...Records and research‘Entente Cordiale’, you said?Friday 25 July 2014As a French historian working at The National Archives, I am particularly interested in...Records and research‘The most formidable document’Wednesday 23 July 2014‘The most formidable document I have ever seen addressed by one state to another...Records and researchCollaborative doctoral studentships 2015-2016Thursday 17 July 2014The Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme is generating a lot of interest. We have some...Records and researchMy Tommy’s War: An unexpected war at homeFriday 11 July 2014My great-uncle had an unexpected war at home. My grandfather was too young to...Records and researchTales from the Special Operations Executive: Operation Remorse, part twoThursday 10 July 2014This is my second blog post on Operation Remorse, the secret Second World War operation that earned...Behind the scenesWhat history textbooks don’t tell you about the Jacobites…Monday 7 July 2014I had a sketchy knowledge of the period relating to the Jacobites and had... « 1 … 87 88 89 90 91 … 115 »